I have no clue...

...what to title this post and all clever possibilities have left me. :) So, here you go...a post of totally random stuff.

My 31st b-day was a few weeks ago and Mike usually gets me some kind of sentimental, lovey card...but not this year. This year I got the lovely, poetic card below...and I liked it. :)

I think she's cute...and when I turned my back for ONE second, while we were playing on the deck, I found her standing in the pool...next came sitting (while still fully clothed)...awesome! :)

My little tie-dyed, bubble blower. He made this t-shirt at VBS. I thought it turned out pretty cute!

She LOVES the swing and I love containing her (from..you know...sitting in the pool fully clothed)...even if only for awhile. :)

Silly face and sticky outie ears...what a combo!

Funny Nattie story....she has just, in the last few weeks, started actually trying to say real words (other than da-da). I am always telling her she's a good girl and she's now repeating me with her version..."goo gurr." The song "Free Fallin" by Tom Petty came on in the car the other day and you know the words..."she's a good girl...loves her mama...."....well, Mike and I both started laughing because, from the backseat we hear Nattie in her funny little voice saying, over and over, "goo gurr...goo gurr." :)

Here's another one of Benny and his forced, albeit cute, smile. Oh..and in Benny news he has really impressed me lately with sounding out words and writing them...totally unprompted from us! We were at a restaurant this weekend and he was coloring a picture of a house. He handed me his paper and he had written the words close and open on either side of the front door. He spelled open perfectly and had written C-L-O-S for close. I really couldn't believe it. I guess this means he can probably read more than I realized too. :) Today he wrote play (P-L-A), eat (ET), frog (spelled it correctly on his own!), and toad (T-O-D). When we were talking about what he had written and I told him that eat had an A in it...he was laughing because he realized he actually spelled E-T (from the E-T/Extra Terrestrial movie) and so he wanted to spell Elliot too (little boy from the movie...yes...he's seen it and loves it!). I let him have at it and he ended up with L-E-I-T...which made me smile!

Finally, this picture is not for those with weak stomachs. We were headed home from somewhere the other night and, apparently, Nattie wasn't feeling well. She puked all over her carseat...poor baby! When I turned around to ask her if she was ok she flashed me her silly smile. I guess she felt better. (Pardon the chunks!)